I cannot save my iMovie on iPhone 14 Pro to any other media

Hi,

This forum mainly is for iMovie for Mac. You might try posting on the iPhone forum.

I, too, have iPhone 14 Pro. I was successfully able to save/export a video from an iMovie project using Email, Air Drop, Save to Photos, and Messages. I didn't try the others you mentioned. So, it's not a global issue with iPhone. It is related to your specific system or media.

A few things that you can try: Make sure that you have sufficient free space on your iPhone for it to complete the save/export procedure, and sufficient free space on your destination device to store the video. Possibly, also, the project might be corrupted, so to test that out try exporting a different project and see if it works. Finally, try shutting down your iPhone and then rebooting to try the export procedure again.

I am not familiar enough with iMovie for iPhone to further analyze your issue. If you can't get an answer from the folks on the iPhone forum, you might try calling Apple Support and posing your question to the techs there.

-- Rich

If you create another project and it exports out fine with different media, that would be one indication that there is something amiss with your non-exporting project. Try a new project with the same media as well. That would tell you whether it is the media that is the problem.

Also, try slowly scrolling through your timeline in the troublesome project. Look for black frames, white flashes, artifacts -- anything that might indicate corruption.

Are the clips in an odd or outdated video or audio format, such as .avi?

If you can export one of the clips to your Mac desktop you can try using the free download, Handbrake, to convert it to Mp4/AAC. Do that even if the clip already is Mp4/AAC. Sometimes reconverting can shake out issues.

You can get Handbrake here:

https://handbrake.fr/

A simple way to do it is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to

complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iMovie.

-- Rich

I have an iPhone 14 Pro and it is pretty straight forward. Hit Edit/ShareVideo and it will go right in to the Photos library.

— Rich

Apple support instructions to edit a video - "Edit in imovie and save to your photo library". Yet there is no way to do that in iphone 14. you can save to the file folder as IMOVIE but then I can't save it to photos. There is no way to simply "drag" it as they say. It takes tubes to get through the usability. So NOT intuitive and the instructions are so poor.